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In This Issue: Why We Must Defeat Tea Party Defeat Dold..............1,3&4 Election Guide............6&7 Pre-Election 2012 Voting Matters............1&2 GOTV.................................7 Issue Congress Watch.........4&5 Bailyn Honored...............8 Republican Bob Dold For information or to volunteer: Email us at [email protected] Or visit our website at www.tenthdems.org Forest on Sunday, Or call us at 847.266.VOTE (8683) October 14. It quickly Or write to Hon. Lauren Beth Gash, Chair, Tenth Dems, P.O. Box 523, Deerfield, IL 60015 became apparent that Dold’s campaign strategy Editorial Consultant: Barbara Altman depends on an unin- Editors: Susan Friedman, Allan Sperling Editorial staff: Joan Attenberg, Eleonora formed electorate. Dold di Liscia, Hon. Lauren Beth Gash, Adrienne walked onto the stage Kirshbaum, Leslie Lipschultz, Kim Rodriguez, with many people think- Steve Sheffey, Laura Tomsky Design: Tom Peltier ing he was a moderate, Photos: Claire Esker, Ravi Ganapathy, Jason and slunk off the stage Muelver, Laura Tomsky with his moderate facade Distribution: Ravi Ganapathy, Glenn Stier Tea Party Republican congressman ripped away. Here are some of the key The opinions expressed are those of the writers and not necessarily endorsed by Tenth Dems Robert Dold debated Democratic facts that came out of the debate. challenger Brad Schneider in Lake continued on page 3 www.tenthdems.org TenthNOVEMBER 2012 Illinois Tenth Congressional District News Democrats Newsletter Volume 9, Edition 11 WHY VOTING FOR OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS MATTERS By Eleonora di Liscia The night was November 7, 2000. It peared Gore had won Florida. Then, Supreme Court, and the Palm Beach happened to be my daughter’s fifth they took Florida away. County butterfly ballot. birthday, but it was also the day of the Al Gore/George W. Bush election. In that election, a variety of factors And there was one final factor: Ralph combined to insure that a deeply Nader. If only a tiny percentage of his I came home from my daughter’s mediocre man would assume power Florida voters had switched to Gore, Chuck E. Cheese birthday party. My at a vital crossroads in history. They history would have been written quite husband was hopeful, because it ap- included the Electoral College, the differently. And our lives would have been much better. Nader’s supporters were idealistic and hopeful. They believed there was no difference between the par- ties, and they refused to be complicit by voting “for the lesser of two evils.” But their idealism cost us immeasur- ably. The parties were in fact hugely different. Instead of moving forward on global warming, we moved to- 7HQWK1HZV continued on page 2 Look for a special issue of the featuring the fall fundraiser and photos WHY VOTING FOR OBAMA AND THE Pre-Election 2012 DEMOCRATS MATTERS Issue (continued from page 1) ward denial. Instead of progressing on If you want to keep the Affordable and not just a privilege for the privi- women’s issues, healthcare, gay rights, Care Act that bars insurers from leged, you will vote for the Democrats. education, workers’ rights, consumer denying coverage based on pre- safety, and all other things critical to existing conditions, you will vote for If you believe that good schools middle-class families, we continued the Democrats. should be for everyone and not just to slide further and further back at an the wealthy, you will vote for alarming rate of speed. President Gore If you want to keep Wall Street the Democrats. would not have lied us into war in Iraq reform and the Consumer Financial or water-boarded detainees Protection Bureau, you will vote for If you believe that CEOs like Warren at Guantanamo. the Democrats. Buffett should pay their fair share in taxes, as do their secretaries, you will So here we are again, at a crossroads If you believe that environmental, vote for the Democrats. on the eve of an election. Our choice is consumer safety, and worker safety between President Obama and Gov- laws should be enforced instead of If you understand that a labor union, ernor Mitt Romney as not only presi- ignored or stripped, you will vote for no matter how flawed, is the one bul- dential candidates but also emblems the Democrats. wark between workers and unreason- for their parties. President Obama, the able employer demands for overtime man that some feel isn’t liberal enough, If you believe in the repeal of Don’t hours at minimal pay, you will vote for versus Governor Romney, the man who Ask, Don’t Tell and that discrimina- the Democrats. would continue the failed Bush policies tion against gays should end, you that landed us in our current national will vote for the Democrats. If you understand that our civil liber- predicament. ties including women’s rights, If you believe that a woman should workers" rights, and the right to vote And I ask you not to make the same have the right to make healthcare are vital and that appointing just one mistake that cost us so dearly in 2000. decisions about her very own body, more liberal Supreme Court Justice you will vote for the Democrats. can insure those liberties for decades Obama and the Democrats are not to come, you will vote for perfect. They have not done everything If you want to keep moving the Democrats. we’ve wanted all the time. But they are forward on Immigration reform by far the better option, so much better instead of scapegoating immigrants, If you share a vision of America that our entire future depends on their you will vote for the Democrats. where everyone has a chance for a maintaining control of government. better life and not just the wealthy At the end of the day, they have done If you believe that voting is a right few, you will, you must, you can only much good for our country. vote for Obama and the Democrats. Why We Must Defeat Tea Party Republican Bob Dold Pre-Election 2012 (continued from page 1) Issue Dold voted against Planned Parent- race. Both organizations previously life is in danger, Dold voted against hood. Dold loves to tell us that before backed Republican Mark Kirk in the her amendment. Is this how the citi- he voted to defund Planned Parent- 10th District. zens of the 10th District expect their hood, he spoke out in favor of Planned congressman to vote? Parenthood. It’s true. He did. But in Here’s why Dold forfeited the back- this district, we expect our congress- ing of these organizations. On May 6, Dold is not a friend of the environ- man to actually vote the way he talks. 2011, Dold voted for the anti-choice ment. Two of the most respected bi- H.R. 3, which bans tax subsidies for partisan environmental organizations Dold claims that, gosh darn it, he had private health insurance plans that in the country, the Sierra Club and no choice. He had to vote for H.R.1 include abortion as a covered service the League of Conservation Voters, (the bill that would have defunded and prevents citizens from deducting have endorsed Brad Schneider. The Planned Parenthood) because H.R.1 abortion as a medical expense unless Sierra Club gave Dold an “F,” a rat- was a much bigger bill that was it was the result of rape, incest, or to ing he earned with his voting record needed to keep the government run- save the life of the mother. This mea- rather than his campaign rhetoric. ning. But that’s just not true. H.R.1 sure invites the potential for the In- The League of Conservation Voters was not needed to keep the govern- ternal Revenue Service to investigate gave Dold a miserable 34 percent ment running. We know that because how women who had abortions rating. Dold’s record as a congress- H.R.1 never became law and the became pregnant and how they paid man lost him these endorsements. government never stopped running. for their abortions. Is this how the Both organizations previously backed Dold could have broken with his party citizens of the 10th District expect Republican Mark Kirk in this district. and exercised true independence their congressman to vote? when it mattered, but as he does over Dold opposes equal rights for all 80 percent of the time, he didn’t. “Robert Dold can try to appear Americans. Dold is against marriage moderate all he wants, but after [his equality. Brad Schneider supports Dold voted for the Ryan plan to end May 6, 2011] vote there’s no way marriage equality. Dold is opposed to Medicare as we know it. Yes, it’s Illinois will buy it,” said EMILY’s List the Employment Non-Discrimination true that under the bill Dold voted for, President Stephanie Schriock. “Dold Act (ENDA), which would prohibit something called “Medicare” would showed his true colors by stand- employers from discriminating on the have continued. But it would be Medi- ing with his Republican leaders and basis of sexual orientation or gender care in name only. A voucher system against the women of Illinois. Dold identification. Brad Schneider sup- is not Medicare as we know it. Is this may have run on job creation, but he ports ENDA. Dold does not realize how the citizens of the 10th District has done nothing to create jobs since that legal discrimination against expect their congressman to vote? getting to Washington. Instead, he’s people based on who they are and done plenty to take away women’s who they love is wrong and immoral.

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